ARTIST PROFILE

Jorge Leal

  • Portugal (b. 1975 in Lisbon)
  • Currently in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • I'm transforming my painting into drawing made out of what painting is made of. This relates with my current PhD investigation.

REPRESENTATION

Permanent Work Station

Permanent Work Station

  • 2014
  • Oil on Canvas
  • 60 x 50 cm

  • Translation into painting of a pre-existing drawing made on a sketchbook.
  • Chão (Plain/Floor) - thumbnail Matias - thumbnail Intumescências & Ejaculações (Intumescences & Ejaculations) - thumbnail Autobahn 2013 #2 - thumbnail Autobahn 2013 #3 - thumbnail Doc - thumbnail Ben - thumbnail Bárbara - thumbnail Shadow Over Tities - thumbnail Plant - thumbnail Plastic Chair - thumbnail Permanent Work Station - thumbnail Monsaráz - thumbnail Feet Delight #2 - thumbnail Descascar (Peel Off) - thumbnail Shoes - thumbnail Without Drawing a Day is Lost - thumbnail Plant - thumbnail Birds - thumbnail

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    Relevant Works | 2005 - 2015

Everything is drawing. Drawing equals painting. Painting equals drawing. No more time to wander between the two. Both coexist on paper and on canvas. In my mind there is no separation no more. When painting I draw. When I draw I do relate to painting. The procedures are the same in both mediums. It is all about the line that searches to capture figuration, to encapsulate reality in a linear configuration. Honesty is visible trough the transparency of procedures and that is my work ethic. Every mistake, pentimenti, and new layer of paint are visible in the final stage. The painting-drawing-painting is a narrative about my work process and a straightforward dialogue with the viewer.